Buffy Summers -- Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Emmy Award-winning actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is a veteran of
television, theatre and the big screen, having worked for nearly 15 of her
young 20 years. In addition to starring in The WB's "Buffy the Vampire
Slayer," Gellar will conquer the big screen this year in two highly
anticipated feature films written by Kevin Williamson ("Dawson's
Creek") - "Scream 2," the sequel to last year's blockbuster hit, and "I
Know What You Did Last Summer" co-starring Jenifer Love Hewitt
("Party Of Five").

Starring in the title role of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Gellar plays a
somewhat reluctant hero who fights off vampires at night while juggling
the traumas of high school during the day. Fighting evil creatures
requires adeptness in the martial arts, a challenge which Gellar has
been devoted to since before landing the role. Having studied the
Korean art of Tae kwon Do for four years and earning a brown belt,
Gellar spends her free time both on and off the set continuing her
training with the series stunt coordinator.

No stranger to television, the versatile actress won an Emmy Award in
1994 for her memorable role as Kendall Hart, the devious secret
daughter of Erica Kane (Susan Lucci), on the daytime drama "All My
Children." She played a younger Jackie Kennedy in the critically
acclaimed mini-series "A Woman Named Jackie," and starred with
Valerie Harper and Jeff Daniels in the television movie "An Invasion of
Privacy." She was also a regular on the Syndicated show "Girl Talk."

Gellar's feature film credits include the Warner Bros. movie "Funny
Farm," "Over the Brooklyn Bridge" and "High Stakes." She also
performed in New York stage productions of "The Widow Claire"
opposite Matthew Broderick at Circle in the Square, and "Jake's
Women" at the Old Globe Theatre.

A Manhattan native, Gellar currently resides in Los Angeles.

Buffy Summers

Buffy Anne Summers was born in 1981 to the now divorced Hank and Joyce Summers. As a girl, she would pretend to be the superhero, Power girl, which would turn out to be a prophetic choice of alter ego. Buffy started attending Hemery High School in the LA area, when she was 15, where she learned from her Watcher, Merrick, that she was the Slayer, the Chosen One. After Merrick was killed (and Buffy burnt down the gym), her mother (who had gained custody of her in the divorce) and her moved to Sunnydale, where she started at Sunnydale High School.  reluctant at first, she has again taken up her Slayer duties, under the careful watch of Rupert Giles, Merrick's replacement. Buffy's style of Slayerhood has proven to be unique, in that she has a close-knit circle of friends who know about her Slayer identity, and the fact that she is in love with a (resouled) vampire. Despite that, or maybe because of it, she has done a superlative job, killing the Master and preventing Hell from spilling over the earth. Buffy is played by Sarah Michelle Gellar.

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